In fields like Daraundi and Bhusunde, farmers are currently in a rush to harvest rice, sheave it, and transport it home using threshers.
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Chet Bahadur Kumal of Siranchowk Rural Municipality-4 is preparing to plant potatoes by bringing in 3 ropanis of paddy.
In the fields of Daraudi and Bhusunde, farmers are currently busy harvesting, sheaving and transporting the rice to their homes by threshing.
Farmers here who used to bring in rice by threshing have started using threshers following the technology. ‘It has been 8-10 years since the practice of threshing has been abandoned, now it has become easier to thresh rice with a thresher machine,’ he said. Thresher operators in the Daraudi fields are currently under pressure of work.
Even though threshers are used for threshing, farmers here have been busy with tasks such as harvesting and carrying rice. There is a rush to bring in rice by threshing in the rice fields of Daraudi, Sirdi, Bhusunde, Birdi and other places. According to the Agricultural Knowledge Center, 60 percent of the farmers in the district have already brought in rice. Out of the 10,140 hectares of rice cultivation area, only 85 percent of the area was cultivated this year.
Suman Bhattarai, Information Officer of the Agricultural Knowledge Center Gorkha, said that the rains in the second week of Kartik damaged 380 hectares of rice cultivation. “The rains have damaged more than four and a half percent of the area under rice cultivation,” he said. “The harvested rice has been damaged due to getting wet.” He said that details of the damage have also been collected from some municipalities.
The Knowledge Center has stated that farmers are busy importing rice since the weather is also good after the third week of Kartik. After importing rice, farmers are preparing to plant potatoes.
He also said that the next two weeks are the right time to plant potatoes. Farmers in the district plant Savitri, Makawanpur 1, Ramdhan, Maharaja, Harbinath 1, Sukkha 3, and Nepali hybrid varieties of rice.
